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Nunzio: Oh, and good point about the valve lash adjustment. I’m usually a nut about that- on my mowers and tractors and small...
Nunzio: Jason, even though I’d never been into VWs, I’ve been hearing about that book for the last 35 years! I’ll be...
Nunzio: Ha, yeah- my dopey sister used to date this stinking pig who was 6’4″ and drove a bug…. Funny, but just out of...
Nunzio: Ha, Eric! These things just BEG to be mildly modded, don’t they?! I want it to look bone stock (as it does now- with the...
Nunzio: Great vidjayo, Jason. Thanks. That really lays everything out and ‘splains it. I’m kinda expecting similar to what...
"Sustainability": Someone should ask Elon how long a company can be unprofitable “sustainably” in the USSA without government...
eric: You bet, Nunz! Get a zoomie header and muffler for it!
eric: Hi Anon, The CX and GL series (500 cc) and the same basic bikes are pretty common and service parts are no problem finding. The 650...
eric: Hi Spartan, in re: “Spartan” is a feature, not a bug”… amen. I wish the car industry felt the same.
retired in patagonia: GM stopped offering the Burban with a manual sometime in the late 1980s. I had a 1977 2wd 4 speed which was a...
AnonyAnonymous: MarkyMark: How’s that going to work when you live 60 road miles from town and have no cell phone service ???
no one of consequence: “minor ‘lectrical issues” is the definition of VW Bugs! The super beetle is probably much better than...
Jeremy: HI Doug, PDO’s are a mechanism for providing justice and security absent a monopoly State. So, things would be very...
Jason Flinders: There are some detailed buyers guides out there than can be helpful as well. This one looks pretty complete, and there...
dread pirate anonymous: The floorpan isn’t much of a frame. It relies on the body shell, or a fabricated dune buggy roll cage if...
Anon: These do look like nice bikes. What is the availability for parts? My experience with buying old bikes with low miles is that you...
Jason Flinders: Minor nit, Eric, the VW Bug is not a unibody vehicle, the floorpan is the frame. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Nunzio: Thanks, Eric! This really sounds encouraging. If she’s structurally sound, and the engine and tranny aren’t toast,...
Jason Flinders: “Tesla offers a trip planning function” I have to laugh at stuff like this. I can buy the cheapest econobox...
gtc: You can’t imagine how many people I have tried to explain this to. The cost of fuel they actually would use is inconsequential...
Nasir: Eric – get with it – the newspeak definition of “sustainability” has nothing to do with people wanting to...
eric: Hi Mark, In fact, you are not obliged (legally) to give your name to an AGW unless the AGW has accused you of having violated a law...
eric: Hi Mark! The 750 was known as the “widowmaker”… ; for the reasons you list – and it would got a lot faster...
eric: Hi Keith, Amen. If it’s about economy – any currently available $15k-$17k economy sedan is superior to the least...
Jack Lundberg: Douglas L Self – no I don’t own a backup ICE vehicle. I have not taken a really long trip via Tesla, but...
eric: Hi Speed, The G37 is a great ride; I always considered it a more subtle – and more comfortable 370Z.
Jim Henshaw: Here’s how little gas this car uses on the highway – buy a bunch of 5 gallon gas cans. Lay out in a 20 by 20 can...
Jim Henshaw: The highway gas mileage difference is neglible. If you drove entirely on the highway, 49 mpg versus 59 mpg is only a bit...
ReadyKilowatt: https://youtu.be/5HO70-Rk3jE “All suspects are guilty… otherwise they wouldn’t be suspects, would...
ReadyKilowatt: It will matter when someone realizes the city bus experience sucks and offers a “premium” ride that has...
Speed: I do still love my 13 Infiniti G37s coupe. The 3.7 VHR engine is pretty wild. I’ve massaged the suspension a bit, and now...
ancap51: It could be argued that smaller vehicles aren’t necessarily subsidizing trucks. The weight of the trucks are spread out...
Keith: Don’t forget – once FedGov shoves us all into EV’s – we will have only one choice for our energy needs – the...
Chris t: I for one am NOT going to let you redefine the normal by accepting this bullshit meme, ICE. A car, other than your marginal...
MarkyMark: I was too young to GO to Woodstock; I’m not sure I’d have gone even if I had been of age. That said, I’ve...
MarkyMark: Eric, After I started riding and cutting my teeth on a Yamaha XS400, I started looking for something bigger. I checked out a...
MarkyMark: IIRC, when I’ve watched other videos on dealing with the cops (e.g. Jay Ramey or Flex Your Rights), I was under the...
Douglas L Self: I wonder how many received training by companies who are run by and staffed by IDF ‘veterans’ of the brutal...
Douglas L Self: The cops and PTB don’t give a fuck for s-a-a-a-f-t-e-e-e on the roads, Mark. What they all want is their...
Douglas L Self: The idea of a PDO is intriguing, but I can’t see how it would work under our present system of law. Shame....
The Bobster: Pate? Hee hee. 😉
Douglas L Self: The very fact that the family of the dead kid got $2.4M would indicate that the shooting was NOT justified. Given the...
MarkyMark: When I was at the doctor’s office earlier today, I read an old issue of Road & Track. At the back of the magazine is...
Douglas L Self: I still liked what was depicted at the end of “Tucker: The Man and his Dream” which came out 31 years ago...
chiph: How is the NVH?
MarkyMark: Eric, The video doesn’t work. Is it possible to post another clip of the same event?
Douglas L Self: Jack Lundberg – are YOU the lucky guy in the “Office Space” movie, whom, unlike Bill LUNDBERG, actually...
Douglas L Self: Sadly, many idiots have no concept of the worth of the Fourth Amendment; cops routinely use ignorance and/or intimidation...
Jim Brook: Eric, do you think that someday a stubborn holdout like me, with my ’76 Lincoln Mark IV, will not be able to find gas...
Jack Lundberg: Contrarian here. I own 2 Teslas ( X & 3). Engineer by education – manufacturing businessman by career. Teslas...
Nunzio: Hmmmm…never had that problem nor knew anyone who did with a 300-6. Maybe in a real hot climate? They were always completely...
Douglas L Self: A great Star Wars parody on YouTube, “TROOPS” (mimicking the format of the long-running “blue...
Nunzio: Oh. My. Goodness. Mostly! A stick, no less?!!!! I didn’t know they made ’em in manual; I always said to myself...
Eightsouthman: Marky, I wanted to attend that soiree but didn’t find anyone else who did. Years later I’d meet a guy who told...
Douglas L Self: The last Bond movie, with Daniel Craig, released in 2015, has him going out for a spin in the same Aston-Martin DB5 that...
Douglas L Self: Some 75 years ago, another automotive innovator, Ferdinand Porsche, whom designed the VW Beetle for HITLER (fairly much...
get used to disappointment: Trouble with the Ford 300-6 is that they always seem to run hot. I don’t think Henry put a big enough...
MarkyMark: 8S, I seem to remember a large, outdoor concert during the summer of ’69 where there were HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of...
mostly anonymous all day: “I’d love to find me a solid 70’s-mid 80’s K20 Suburban.” I found one on craigslist a few years ago...
Douglas L Self: That “mileage tax” is already being pushed since, “oh no”, many folks, when gas shot up past...
Douglas L Self: Volunteer your proofreading services, twit, else, take a healthy dose of STFU.
Cold Frog: It happens. I’ll take good content over strict correctness if it is a choice. Constructively, Eric, try using Word spell...
Axis Sally: Come, come, Herr Peters—he is just trying to help, although sadly lacking diplomacy. The content of your articles is...
eric: Hi Anonymous, Tell you what. When I can afford one, I will. Meanwhile, it’s just me doing everything here. Let’s see...
Anonymous: Eric, get yourself a proofreader. “so long as their [sic] are less less [sic]” Seriously.
Craig Schultz: Here’s another reason to push EV’s: They do not use petro-fuels, so, no fuel taxes paid, therefore a different...
BrentP: I don’t expect a place like say “Discount Tire” to check the ball joints and tie rod ends. I do that. I want a...
BrentP: I found there was very little interest in how Kavanaugh was a good servant of the state and the ruling class when I brought it...
john T Morzenti: Elon Musk has finally outdone Malcolm Bricklin and John DeLorean as the foremost scammer of all time. Does nobody note...
BrentP: Trucking is a business that government works to make it so the small players are harassed out of business just like any other...
BrentP: Don’t forget the rare earth mining operations to get the materials for the batteries. There’s no way to economically...
Fredrick: >9 BILLION of taxpayer dollars already shoved up a liberal globalist RATHOLE. That is what Musk has already grabbed from us...
eric: Hi Jim, Yes, that’s why I prefaced it with “in principle.” Yes, you’re right the tax as it is involves...
Nunzio: AHHHhhhh! This made me feel good!
Nunzio: 8, 70’s and 80’s I like Chebby/GM P/U’s. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crew cab single rear wheel...
Nunzio: I’ll buy a new PU when they go back to putting bulletproof inline sixes in ’em! A thousand pound of torque my ass! A...
Eightsouthman: Brent, the very reason I refuse to pay road use tax. The ungodly registration costs plus the huge amount of tax I pay on...
Eightsouthman: Nun, I feel like the same way. I know where a 79 one ton crew cab chevy pickup is and has been for years but a friend told...
dread pirate anonymous: 8SM: my friend down in Colorado inherited a 1965 K-20 with a 292-6 and a 4 speed. I used to drive that pickup...
MarkyMark: That’s why, if I’m stopped by an AGW these days, I TELL them I’m reaching into my glove compartment (or...
Jim Henshaw: “In principle, the tax – the user fee – added onto the price of motor fuels is as Libertarian a thing as can be...
Nunzio: The way it works, NOOC, is they only mention it when it’s some scary darky with a long record. They act all outraged, but...
Nunzio: Yeah, Chris- that’s been going on since the 6.0 days. Brickman (A national landscape/plowing company) ditched diesels after...
Ernie: That, detective, is the RIGHT question…
gtc: No offense Brent, however, they actually can, and do, screw up anything, and everything. When a customer rolls in with new tires and...
BrentP: Most of the chains will have prices similar to tire rack’s these days if you check their websites and come in informed and...
BrentP: A generation of engines can last 20 years or more. It sounds like a nonsense announcement to be politically pleasing.
richb: My area has a $750k AGW too. And that number was BEFORE he smashed out that window on the passenger side of a car and tazed a guy....
richb: VW has already announced that the last generation of it’s IC engines will be 2026. I think they are the first major...
Chris: There is no way these Tier 4 engines go the distance. I do biz and am friends with many contractors that own fleets of them. They...
libertyx: Eric, Got it… 🙂
Jason Flinders: Interestingly, over 40 years ago at least one auto executive (GM president Pete Estes) loved the idea of electric cars...
eric: Hi Matt, The Prius is a hybrid – so a part-time electric car. The battery lasts longer because it’s used less (as well...
gtc: Fuel mileage is also considerably worse with this shitty gasahol. Even my motorcycle fuel mileage drops 8-10 mpg when I am forced to...
Matt: I did not realize EV batteries have such a short life span. Many people, so I am told, have gone over 150k miles on the Prius...
gtc: Additional note: If your car has Aluminum rims insist that they be balanced with stick-on weights on the back inside rim surface....
no one of consequence: I wonder if the media and politician fueled fury over “racist cops” killing poor innocent black boys...
not left handed: I guess it depends on whether you want a pickup or a car ????
Ken: And think of the fees to pay to compensate for loss of fuel taxes. The car will keep up with the kilowatts used during the year...
Eightsouthman: I take exception for all douchebags. They perform valuable service while this crowd of ignorant armed thugs could...

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